Saturday, December 13, 2008


Circuit De T Nagar

If you could guess the name of this track, kudos to your F1 knowledge :)

People. Hold on. There is no street circuit coming to Chennai and this blog post has got nothing to do with formula one racing.

When you are the only person in your family with a fair amount of knowledge about how to handle gear boxes and steering wheels in a moving automobile (To put it in layman's term, driver of the house ), you have a duty to drop your near and dear ones in Bus/train stations in unearthly hours . As a responsible brother, i took my car to drop my sister in T Nagar so that she would happily travel to Bangalore in a Volvo without me :(

If the readers are of the notion that i am sad about my sister starting back, you got me wrong. I am sad about the fact that I missed a ride in Volvo. Don't ask me what's the big deal in a Volvo bus drive? :) If i have to choose between Kingfisher airlines and KPN Volvo, i would go for the latter :)

It was then i realized that my Asho-e-dino (read it as Santro) needed some fun. I stepped on the gas and when i reached a U turn in Panagal Park similar to turn 11 of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, I saw another car slowly moving towards the turn. Adrenalines in me was at all time high and i could hear Steve slater speaking :) I went on the outside and managed to overtake the fellow in that corner at a speed of 30 Kmph :) Victory. A perfect high speed U turn coupled with an overtaking maneuver. This is one of the best driving maneuver i have done till date. The sense of joy i derived in overtaking a person from outside is analogous to seeing Micheal Schumacher overtake Kimi in inside line in his last grandprix . Somethings money cannot buy :) Wish Steve slater was in commentary box in Panagal park :)

Finally, to all my blog readers, I am back to blogging after 11 months break (I know that it sounds really stupid to say that my work is keeping me occupied but believe me, it is :( ). I am planning to write a series of articles of events that happened during the last one year. Keep visiting. Good night :)